Renson Mwakandana Health officials said on Monday that Sudan has discovered its first case of monkeypox since the World Health Organization last month designated the illness as a public health emergency of global concern. The West Darfur state of Sudan’s health ministry reported “registering the first confirmed case of monkeypox in a 16-year-old student.” Director […]
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Renson Mwakandana A former deputy leader and spokesperson of Al-Shabab, a Somali insurgent organization, has been nominated as a government minister. The new administration of Somalia has appointed Mukhtar Robow as its minister of religious affairs. After being imprisoned during the administration of the former president for organizing a militant group, he had been under house arrest for four years. He was […]
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Renson Mwakandana The unexpected shutdown of all Kenyan schools begun on Tuesday, according to Kenya’s education minister, in preparation for the nation’s national elections the following week. The half-term vacation was originally slated to start on Friday, but Prof. George Magoha ordered the closure a week early and the start of courses again on August […]
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Renson Mwakandana Police said on Monday that 22 people died and 10 others critically injured as a result of floods over the weekend in the town of Mbale in eastern Uganda. After torrential rains triggered mudslides, two rivers burst their banks, inflicting extensive damage and displacing hundreds of inhabitants. “The death toll from the floods […]
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Renson Mwakandana The Nairobi Expressway has been formally commissioned by President Uhuru Kenyatta. On Saturday, the Expressway was shut down since the trial period had expired. The project is now open for public usage thanks to the commissioning. According to the Moja Expressway Company, which is in charge of managing the route, the road is now usable […]
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Thandisizwe Mgudlwa – Cape Town, SA UNICEF is joining South African 🇿🇦 education stakeholders when they met to pump up society and rally it to action regarding the protection of schools. The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU), which happens to be the biggest union in the education and public service sector, incollaboration with the […]
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Renson Mwakandana Tanzania’s health officials have outlawed the use of Hensha, a well-known traditional herbal remedy that was promoted as enhancing male sexual performance. Prof. Hamisi Malebo, head of the Traditional and Alternative Health Practice Council, stated that recent research led to the decision to outlaw it. He said that analysis of the natural component […]
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Renson Mwakandana & Ekeomah Atuonwu On Thursday, Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 🇨🇮announced that Italian company Eni had made a new offshore oil and natural gas discovery, increasing the potential of deposits discovered the previous year by 25%. It said in a statement it had found light oil in block CI-101, adding there could be 1.5-2.0 […]
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Renson Mwakandana Since the end of 2021, Burundi has covertly transferred hundreds of troops and members of a youth militia into the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo to combat an armed rebel group, according to a Burundian human rights organization. According to the Burundi Human Rights Initiative, the operation’s primary objective is the RED-Tabara, the most […]
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Renson Mwakandana The reliance of the world economy on the US dollar was questioned by Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday. Sergey Lavrov said in a speech while on a visit to Ethiopia that the reliance on the American dollar to support the global economy was “not so very promising” and that nations were turning to […]
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